My sister - who lives in Jacksonville, Florida - just texted me and said that her husband met with a neurosurgeon - he needs surgery, but he can't have it due to the "overwhelming" covid "inpatients". According to my sister, he will remain on crutches / wheelchair and in constant pain! These hospitals need to be held FINANCIALLY responsible for the pain and suffering they are causing regular patients due to their LIES!!
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We have 4 hospitals that I oversee, but I am based at the 175 bed hospital. The other hospitals are 50 beds, 45 beds, 38 beds, as we are rural. We are being inundated with COVID patients for the past 2 weeks. We went from 2 COVID patients to over 40 in less than 2 weeks. These patients are very ill and take a lot of resources (staff). I will be happy if this virus ever goes away.
Which two weeks were these?
Thanks for the clarification though!
The past 2 weeks. I was told that our urgent care centers are still diagnosing in high numbers so we may not have seen our peak in the hospitals yet. There is usually a lag.
So another question - as I mentioned at my wife's hospital, it was only a few weeks ago they began to test everyone (after ceasing this activity). Is this true of your hospitals? IE Was there a time you tested everyone entering, ceased, and began again? Or have you always tested all? Or never all? etc.
Our hospital has only been testing patients who present with COVID symptoms, up until this surge. I don't know if they resumed testing all patients now that we have a big surge again.